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[beko1987]

Will my 1.9td of bosch goodness run on heating oil?

[Stanky]

Mrs_Stanky's new moneymaking scheme is delivering the local free paper/magazine thing which actually pays decent coin, so we got 1000 of the things plus assorted leaflets and stuff delivered on thursday and she's been out delivering them over the weekend, except today when she had to take micro_Stanky to a party so I was asked to finish off the remaining ones, about 250 of them.

 

Cue much grumbling about it being her scheme and why do I have to get lumbered with it etc etc (mostly in jest) but it was really good actually. Today was cold and windy but dry round here, so off I toddled with these things boxed up and started bunging them through letterboxes, the work isn;t really that taxing but its really interesting seeing what old chod people have stashed away. I'll have to remember my phone next time so i can take pics but todays spots included:

 

- Suzuki Rhino with all 4 wheels off on axle stands

- L reg Citroen ZX 1.9d in white on steelies with mildly Beko1987'd front wing

- BMW 750iL covered in moss

- 3 Nissan Sunnys, all garaged at different houses

- A mk1 Punto 1.2 16v 85bhp model with iffy sills but still on the road. Presumably into double figures of head gasket changes by now

- A rover 600ti

 

Plus a load of other stuff I can't currently recall.

 

got the job finished and made it back with enough time to change the 'inner' light housing on the Nissan which has been cracked for about 2 years after I reversed into a tractors trailer in the dark. Thanks for the part Primeradoner, it looks about a million times better now! Next on the list is to replace the numberplates which have faded badly then next up is the gearbox replacement due (hopefully) at the end of next week. Who do I need to contact to book a new thread in advance for that? I know there's a quota now so don't want to go mad and steal someone else's!

[Lacquer Peel]

Will my 1.9td of bosch goodness run on heating oil?

 

Kerosene is a bit thinner than diesel, but yes. I would mix a bit of veg or engine oil to bulk it out.

[beko1987]

Cool. Got 1/4 a tank of derv in already, picking up 30l of heating oil from freecycle tomorrow, Ill chuck 10l of veg in to thicken it out as I put it in.

 

Ive got new engine oil but the meriva drinks that like fuck so ill keep that!

 

Dont want to let free fuel go to waste!

[twosmoke300]

Isnt it the same as red diesel as far as customs bum raping is concerned

[beko1987]

Id best glf with it and burn through it quickly... Never been stoppee by vosa before though

[scaryoldcortina]

^ I think so. It's sold as a non road fuel so doesn't count under the "produced" loophole that exists for SVO which isn't sold or taxed as fuel at all.

[Craig the Princess]

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/excise-notice-75-fuel-for-road-vehicles/excise-notice-75-fuel-for-road-vehicles

 

Kerosene is heating oil isn't it? Seems to be treated as red diesel.

 

That said that chances of being caught...

[beko1987]

Ah.

 

I'd best pick it up so as not to be a dick (its round the corner from work) and find someone with oil fired heating to offload it onto...

 

Unless its good at stripping paint or something?

[mossymossy]

Will my 1.9td of bosch goodness run on heating oil?

Absolutely. As beko said, stick a little cheap 20/50 in to lubricate the pump. This is a trick of many an aircraft engineer when running on waste Jet A1. Being an aircraft engineer, of course I have never done this as it would be instant dismissal. Customs and excise take quite an interest in you as well. Just don't get caught.  I'm pretty certain the lucas pumps don't mind a drop of the stuff. It's nice and thin.

[beko1987]

20/50. Ill certainly not have a look for some cheap asda stuff of that tomorrow...

[Lacquer Peel]

I've never had a tank dipped, running on waste vegetable oil, engine oil, hydraulic oil, kerosene, red diesel. That's because I used it off road*.

[drum]

I was dipped once while at the local skip.

[beko1987]

I can use the meriva at the tip if I have to go in the next month...

[ShiteRider]

Absolutely. As beko said, stick a little cheap 20/50 in to lubricate the pump. This is a trick of many an aircraft engineer when running on waste Jet A1. Being an aircraft engineer, of course I have never done this as it would be instant dismissal. Customs and excise take quite an interest in you as well. Just don't get caught. I'm pretty certain the lucas pumps don't mind a drop of the stuff. It's nice and thin.

Just out of curiosity, how hard is it to get hold off avgas 100/130LL ?

[robinmasters]

 

 

 i lube up my beard/head trimmers with wd40 , and therefore end up smelling strongly of said fish based stuff when  I am looking my smartest.

 

horrifyingly i much prefer this workshop odor to actual aftershave

 

My wife does the Avon, so I have numerous aftershaves (we buy more stuff so she meets her sales targets, and gets a bonus, gr9 business model), and I have on a number of occasions smelled something on my hands which I liked and struggled to remember which aftershave it was I put on that morning, before realising what the smell actually was.

 

I would buy that stuff.

[Dave_Q]

Re heating oil, as long as it's not red I'd use it in the car, have used a bit of kero previously in an xud.

 

The problem with it is it is much less lubricatey than normal diesel so will kill pumps quickly if not mixed with veg etc.

 

Having said that, there was a bloke running a pd Bora on 90% kerosene, 10% biodiesel when I used to buy bio from a place in Bradford. Allegedly it had ran fine for thousands of miles but it sounded like spanners in a washing machine.

[HH-R]

Saw a lovely red B reg Visa in Edinburgh last night - is it anyone on here?

 

No photo, I did have my cameraphone but I was on a bus and it was pitch black, the photo would have been as much use as none at all.

[beko1987]

Re heating oil, as long as it's not red I'd use it in the car, have used a bit of kero previously in an xud.

 

The problem with it is it is much less lubricatey than normal diesel so will kill pumps quickly if not mixed with veg etc.

 

Having said that, there was a bloke running a pd Bora on 90% kerosene, 10% biodiesel when I used to buy bio from a place in Bradford. Allegedly it had ran fine for thousands of miles but it sounded like spanners in a washing machine.

Mine sounds like a bag of spanners already, so no worries there. Ill grab some veg in the morning from asda if Im up early enough and pop it in before I (dont) put this heating oil in...

[Stanky]

Just paid 99.7p a litre for Asda unleaded, it was weird watching the litres go up faster (just) than the cost! Its been a while since that last happened.

 

Normanly I don't like supermarket fuels but since its a good 7p a litre cheaper than anywhere else locally its a no-brainer.

 

There was a massive queue though, I bet they are out by 10pm.

[drum]

Asbo motors jumping on the AS roffle wagon.

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Tried to go to town today but there was a que for the main parking so came straight home.

 

Fiesta was a bit jumpy as normal in damp weather but the new fluffy says were amazingly warm and nice

[seth]

Today I cut a 50+ year old NOS panel in half with a grinder.

 

[hairnet]

seth ya barbarian

 

drum so hes only selling 10 tickets ??

[stuboy]

Went car hunting for oh sister and her brother.. set her heart on corsa 1.2poo s'exi, turned up.. wouldnt start even though just been moved..? Mayo on filler cap.. header tank stank..on start up deffo rattle garage man sprayed grease everywere i sugestted timing chain was lil loose so walked away and we found a yard with some others she liked and ended up buying this 1.2 expression... appatantly its cute

[Lankytim]

Hydraulic oil is the best stuff to mix with Kerosene or jet fuel, it's such a small amount I'd just stick a few litres of Veg in with it

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I ran my 4-headed monster Rover 800 on Kero for thousands of miles, chucking in a bit of engine oil now and then and it didnt seem to give a shit, just carried on

[D Spares & Tyres]

You need to put veg in it to disguise the smell

 

Kero illegal and stinks but cooking oil fine and will overpower it ☺

 

For added disguise in case of dipping add some used diesel engine oil to make it black ☺

[wuvvum]

Got a few bits done this weekend in spite of the weather.  Swapped the wheels over between the two red Rovers, so the VI now wears the 15" alloys and the Project Drive 25 now has manky 14" steelz with Poundland trims (although I did give the rims a quick coat of black paint as it didn't look right with rust showing through the trim holes).  There was logic behind this:  the steels have snow tyres on them, which the 143bhp of the VI was nomming through at a rate of knots (they didn't do the handling a lot of favours either); the 25 has 40bhp less so is less likely to chew the tyres up, plus it's the one I'm most likely to use if we do get snow.  The VI actually looks quite good on the 25 wheels too.

 

I fixed the non-functioning heated rear window on the Swift (one of the little "feet" that the wires join onto had come adrift), then drove it up onto the ramps to have a poke about underneath.  Wish I hadn't now - it's got quite a lot of grot.  It has a hole in the driver's side front floorpan, which I knew about, but I was also able to poke my screwdriver through the outer sills on both sides in several places.  It's a shame really, as it's a great little car in every other respect, but it's probably going to be too much for me to take on myself and the values of Swifts are such that it won't really be worth paying someone to do it either.  It's still got a few months' test though, so I'm going to run around in it through the winter and then see what's what.  On a more positive note, I also got the Rover 25 up on the ramps, and that looks pretty sound - which is good as the MOT runs out in a couple of weeks.

 

Had a bit more of a poke around the CX as well - found some more rust (including a couple of small holes inside the rear door shuts) but nothing too drastic.  It's still not heating though - my initial thought was that the thermostat might have been removed, but when I had a look the thermostat housing didn't look like it'd been disturbed for many a year.  My current suspicion is a blocked heater matrix, as the inlet pipe seems to be getting warm and the outlet pipe doesn't - although a longer drive will be needed to confirm that.  All the heating controls appear to be doing their job, as I can hear the relevant motors buzzing behind the dash when I move them.  It doesn't seem to be getting as much air to the screen as it should though - but there's not much I can do about that without removing the dash, which ain't gonna happen.  For the moment I've plugged in my silly little 12v ceramic heater thing, which clears about a 6" diameter circle directly in front of me - better than nothing.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've been fettling today as well, fitted a new propshaft centre bearing on the 760 and investigated the busted lumbar support in the drivers seat. The mechanism inside the seat was broken so I removed it, drilled and locked it in the '75% adjustment' position, and reinstalled it inside the seat. Now I have slightly more lumbar support than i would like, but its much better than none at all.